I just updated my Android Studio to 3.0 canary 1. Now I am working on my existing project on Android Studio 3.0 canary 1. By default gradle:3.0.0-alpha1 is
I've just had the same issue. Fixed it by changing Gradle distributionUrl in "gradle-wrapper.properties".
Here is what I have configured:
#Wed Mar 22 16:13:58 BRT 2017
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-all.zip
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Offical video to help migaration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBsbI8ICYKg
see also comment below from @TmTron